linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM

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Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:19:28 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM_LEN
 != 16


On Thursday 2012-02-23 10:57, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
But there's more,
>> 
>> 24931 ?        S      0:00  \_ [btrfs-endio-met]
                               \_ [kconservative/5]
                               \_ [ext4-dio-unwrit]
>> 
>> [with a wondersome patch:] $ grep Name /proc/{29431,29432}/stat*
>> /proc/29431/status:Name: btrfs-endio-meta-1
>> /proc/29432/status:Name: btrfs-endio-meta-write-1
                      Name: kconservative/512
                      Name: ext4-dio-unwritten
>
>doh.  The fix for that is to have less clueless btrfs developers.

And truncate their names to SUNWbtfs, ORCLintg and EXT4diou?
I think not :)
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